Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cr
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom o
Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and the
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a
Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.
For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your
It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
When you fast, do not be somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. Truly
All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themse
So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the stre
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If y
For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of t
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street cor